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John Roberts stands inside the Roberts Recycling textile-processing facility. An on-screen caption identifies him as Director at Roberts Recycling.
John Roberts, Director at Roberts Recycling: At Roberts Recycling, we work with hundreds of the world’s leading brands, and here are some of the problems that they come to us with. There could be a manufacturing issue. There could be sizing problems. It could be because the company has changed their uniform, or it’s branded, got a logo on, don’t want it to fall into the wrong hands. Could be because the goods are counterfeit, or there’s been some sort of licensing infringement. Sometimes it’s simply a by-product of the manufacturing process. Of course, we also have sensitive items.
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John walks through the warehouse beside stored textiles and cardboard boxes. Bales of sorted and packaged garments are shown.
John Roberts: The starting point is always they tell us what their biggest fears are, and we listen to those problems and we offer up a tailored solution. Quite often, that solution will involve shredding to various sizes, depending on how stringent they are about protecting the actual logo itself.
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Textile material travels through industrial shredding machinery. Overhead and close-up views show the equipment reducing garments into smaller fibres.
John Roberts: The reason we decided to invest in the kit to recycle stuff that was traditionally going for incineration and landfill was because that, at its core, was why this whole business was started. So it’s easy for people to buy and sell or recycle the reusable items, but it’s non-rewearable material that’s going to landfill that we wanted to focus our energy on and try and offer solutions for.
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Processed textile fibres move along a conveyor while John explains their onward uses.
John Roberts: We always try and put them into products where they’re replacing virgin material. That could be insulation. That could be carpet underlay.
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John speaks beside the processing machinery before the video shows the Roberts Recycling site and warehouse activity.
John Roberts: With the Roberts brand, we’d mirror some of the things that our brand partners stand for. So when you see that brand or that logo or whatever, you know that you can trust it. We want people to know that when they trust us with their end-of-life, non-rewearable textiles, we do exactly what we say we’re going to do with it.
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John delivers the closing invitation from the warehouse floor. Forklifts and textile-processing operations are visible behind him.
John Roberts: So if you’re a brand, retailer or manufacturer and you’re producing textile and fashion waste that you want to have recycled sustainably and ethically, please get in touch. Or you’d be very welcome to come down, have a warehouse tour and see what we’re about.
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The video concludes with views of the active warehouse and Roberts Recycling branding.
